Improvement in rollers for buffing soles



J. B; IDHVNSUN. Roller for Buffing Soles.

No. 167,904. Patenredsepnzmn.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. e

JOSEPH B. JOHNSON, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS. n

IMPROVEMENT IN RoLLER'sl Fon Bul-'FING soLEs.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 167,904, dated September21, 1875 application led August 10, 1875.

'OASE A.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH B. JOHNSON, of Lynn, of the county of Essexand State of Massachusetts, have made a new and useful invention havingreference to Rollers for Bufng Soles; and do hereby declare the same tobe fully described in the following specification, and represented inthe accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top view; Fig. 2, alongitudinal section,and Fig. 3 a transverse section, of abnfling-roller provided with my invention. the object of which is toe'ect the securing of the said emery-paper covering upon the cushionedbody of the roller, it having been customary heretofore to accomplishsuch by nails or tacksdriven into the abrasive covering and theroller-body.

My said invention consists in the combination of a series ofhitching-points and springs and screws with the roller.

In the drawings, A denotes the rollerbody, covered with a cushion, B,offelt. Within the said body there is arranged, as shown, a series ofmovable hitching points or spurs, O C C, each having its shank soapplied to the roller-body, or to such and its shaft T, as to be capableof sliding radially or transversely therein. Furthermore, the shank b ofeach of such points or spurs is furnished with a spring, D, connected tothe roller, and so applied to the shank as to push or move itlongitudinally, so as to force the point out beyond the periphery of theroller. There is to each point a tubular screw, G, which receives in itsbore the said point, and screws into the body of the roller or into ametallic arm, H, projecting radially from the roller-shaft. The

screw is provided with a nicked head, as shown, to receive alscrew-driver. On removing the screws G from the roller-body thehitching-points will be projected beyond the peripheral surface of saidbody and its cushion, ready for reception of the sheet I of said paperor emery cloth, which, near one edge of it, is to be pressed upon thepoints, so as to force them through it, after which the sheet is to bedrawn closely around the roller, lapped a short distance upon itself,and again -appliedto the points in manner as before described.

This having been done, the screws G are to he.

placed upon the points and screwed into the roller body or arms H, andagainst the outer ends of the shanks of the points, so as to crowd thesaidshanks and points back within the body, and the heads of the saidscrews down upon the abrasive covering, which, by the screws, will thusbe held in place on the cushion-covering of the roller, with thescrewheads sunk within such covering.

The advantages of my invention will be readily seen by persons who usebufing-machines, as it enables the buiing-rollers to be

